Thunderbirds and Blue Angels Fly Over, Atlanta

[pez]

GoPro

 

[PJM]

Nice set

 

[pez]

Nice set

Thanks, Pete!

 

[pez]

OK so in that GoPro footage, 28 sec in, there is an interesting (to me) anomaly. 37 or so frames (60fps) of an object coming from the upper right and crossing the FOV. It also seems to be spinning and performing a shallow S turn as it disappears into the distance. Not a gnat or other insect and not wind-driven debris. Rather odd, in my experience. Here's a PS enlargement of it in frame 7, and also an extreme color boost of that image in camera raw. The appearance changes radically across the frame, though. Just thought it was fascinating.

 

[K9Kirk]

Nice set and video. Bet that was fun. I don't know if we're looking at the same thing but in the video and just after the jets got past the two twin buildings I could see something smaller behind and further out to their (jet pilots) right and pretty much matching their speed. I initially thought it was just a smaller jet trailing them to take video from the air. I don't know what that is that you got a still of, or if it's the same thing I was seeing but whatever it is it's just not clear enough to distinguish. It is interesting though.

 

[pez]

Nice set and video. Bet that was fun. I don't know if we're looking at the same thing but in the video and just after the jets got past the two twin buildings I could see something smaller behind and further out to their (jet pilots) right and pretty much matching their speed. I initially thought it was just a smaller jet trailing them to take video from the air. I don't know what that is that you got a still of, or if it's the same thing I was seeing but whatever it is it's just not clear enough to distinguish. It is interesting though.

Thanks! The white object was, if at the same altitude, traveling far faster than the jets- total of 37 frames on the original 2.7K footage, or 0.62 seconds to go through the ultra wide FOV, whereas it took the jets 19.4 seconds. Assuming the jets were traveling 400mph, that is many thousands of MPH. So. It was either far closer to the camera- lets say in insect (but they don't look like that on video) or something anomalous. It was not the F16 chase plane. Also it made a gentle S-turn. Lets just say it was an insect that I've never seen in video footage- done A friend was insisting that it was "a drone"- lol, pretty absurd in that airspace to begin with. I was also considering a sensor problem or reflection across the lens of some rare type.

 

[K9Kirk]

Nice set and video. Bet that was fun. I don't know if we're looking at the same thing but in the video and just after the jets got past the two twin buildings I could see something smaller behind and further out to their (jet pilots) right and pretty much matching their speed. I initially thought it was just a smaller jet trailing them to take video from the air. I don't know what that is that you got a still of, or if it's the same thing I was seeing but whatever it is it's just not clear enough to distinguish. It is interesting though.

Thanks! The white object was, if at the same altitude, traveling far faster than the jets- total of 37 frames on the original 2.7K footage, or 0.62 seconds to go through the ultra wide FOV, whereas it took the jets 19.4 seconds. Assuming the jets were traveling 400mph, that is many thousands of MPH. So. It was either far closer to the camera- lets say in insect (but they don't look like that on video) or something anomalous. It was not the F16 chase plane. Also it made a gentle S-turn. Lets just say it was an insect that I've never seen in video footage- done A friend was insisting that it was "a drone"- lol, pretty absurd in that airspace to begin with. I was also considering a sensor problem or reflection across the lens of some rare type.

Well, I have seen video on TV of UFO's flying at an estimated 4000 mph. and faster and they still haven't figured them out.